# Alexander Klapheke

I am a fourth-year graduate student in linguistics at Harvard. My areas of focus are formal semantics and the syntax–semantics interface, and my other academic interests include math, logic, philosophy of language, and computer science. My advisor is Gennaro Chierchia.

## Projects

Aspect Particles

The English aspectual particles already, yet, still, and anymore seem to modify events in ways that depend on the speaker’s expectations. For example, already implies that an event takes place earlier than expected. I am looking at the mechanics of the particles, in particular asymmetries between already and still, and developing an alternative-based semantics of these particles which also accounts for the negative polarity of yet and anymore.

Numerals

Joint work with Teodora Mihoc. Modified numerals (more than $n$, less than $n$, at least $n$, at most $n$) pose several problems for theories of number meaning; in addition, the latter two seem to be focus-sensitive. We are unifying insights from various theories of numeral meaning to capture phenomena such as these.

## Teaching

Spring 2016
EMR 11 Language, Logic, & Interpretation (Teaching Fellow) Office hours: T 10–11 in Robinson 208
Ling 160/Psy 1605 Psychology of Language (Teaching Fellow) Office hours: W 11–12 in WJH basement lounge
Fall 2015
Ling 101 The Science of Language (Teaching Fellow)
Ling 98a Junior Tutorial: Discourse Analysis
Spring 2015
Ling 101 The Science of Language (Teaching Fellow)
Ling 97r Sophomore Tutorial: Modal & Temporal Logic
Fall 2014
Ling 116 Semantic Theory I (Teaching Fellow)
Ling 98a Junior Tutorial: Discourse Analysis

## Tools

These are some small things I cooked up to solve small, specific problems. Unless otherwise specified, they are released under the MIT License.

LaTeX
My Beamer theme
Useful macros for semantics
Vim
Syntax file for the CHAT transcription format
Keymaps to easily type IPA, Pinyin, and Bopomofo
Other